What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
100
The foreign phrase that means "of the day"
What is "du jour"?
100
Materials that contain the information needed to begin writing
What is a source?
100
The perspective or POV through which informational text is written?
What is third person objective?
100
Statements that can be proved
What is a fact?
200
The five elements of a narrative
What is setting, character, conflict, plot, theme?
200
A device that writers use to show ordinary people using specific things. The idea is that readers will see that ordinary people do it, and the audience will want to join too.
What is "plain folks"?
200
The way in which a text is organized
What is a text structure?
200
A structure for text in which the writing follows a specific time line
What is chronological?
200
A technique in advertising in which the reader is made to feel that a great movement is beginning. Readers are made to believe they will be seen as outsiders if they do not join.
What is bandwagon?
300
The grouping of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph
What is a stanza?
300
A common technique in which famous people endorse a product even though they are not experts------ Extra 100 points for knowing the rhetorical strategy
What is testimonial?---- Ethos
300
The reason for doing or writing something
What is purpose?
300
Reasoning that uses evidence to find a conclusion
What is inductive reasoning?
300
a play on words that confuses similar words in order to give the word or phrase two meanings
What is a pun?
400
The perspective through which a story is told when the narrator knows and shares all of the characters' thoughts and feelings
What is third person objective?
400
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.
What is a metaphor?
400
Written speech between characters
What is dialogue?
400
A source that has a first hand relationship to the topic (diaries, interviews, letters, public speeches)
What is a primary source?
400
The beginning of a letter
What is a salutation?
500
The complicated underlying meaning of a narrative (example: You only live once)
What is a theme?
500
A figure of speech in which a non-human thing is given human qualities.
What is personification?
500
Writing that is specialized for a specific task (ex: a resume, a recipe, driving directions)
What is technical writing?
500
A statement or claim that is not true
What is a false premise?
500
One thing you can do to guarantee you do well on the TCAP?